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J. M. FITCH.

ARM BEST FOR TELEPHONE USES.

No. 308,660. 4 Patented Dec. 2, 1884,

PATENT FFIC JOHN M. FITCH, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

ARM-REST FOR TELEPHONE USES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,660, dated December 2, 1884.

Application filed July 9. 1884.

(No model.)

full, clear, and exact description thereof, referenee being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction of arm-rests especially adapted for the use of telephone-operators and in telephone-stations, to enable the operator to hold the telephonereceiver to either ear, withoutthe fatigue usually attending such work, especially when 1 lengthy conversations are taking place through the instrument.

Figure 1 is a perspective of a telephone, showing the adaptation of my improved armrest to use. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal cross-section through the base-plate.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, A represents a base-plate adapted to be secured to a wall or other support, and centrally provided with a vertical socket, a, adapted to receive the pintle b of the bracket-arm B, and allowing the same to be swung from right to left or left to right, such motion, however, being limited by the ears f, projecting from the front of the base-plate on either side of the socket. The free end of the bracket-arm B is provided with a socket, c, to receive the standard (I of the arm rest or support 0, and this is vertically adjustable in such socket, and secured at the desired position by the set-screw e. In

practice this bracket is designed to be secured at a suitable point to enable the operator (whether sitting or standing) to rest either arm while engaged inholding the telephonereceiver to the ear, and it is obvious that by its use much fatigue will be avoided.

What I claim as my invention is l. The combinatiomwith a transmitter of a telephone, of a base-plate, A, and arm B, having one end pivoted thereto and adapted to swing from one side of the transmitter to the other, and a support, 0, secured directly to the free end of said arm, substantially as described.

2. An arm-rest consisting of a base-plate, A, a swinging arm, B, having one end pivoted therein, and carrying at its other end a vertically-adjustable armreceiver, substantially as described. v

3. In combination with a telephone receiver and transmitter, the horizontally-swinging arm B, pivoted within a plane passing vertically through the center of the transmitter, and the support 0, secured to said arm B, as and for the purposes described. 4. In combination with atelephone receiver and transmitter, the horizontal swinging arm B, pivoted within a plane passing vertically through the center of the transmitter, and the arm-rest G, secured to said arm B, and secured in a plane substantially lower than the trans mitter, as and for the purpose specified.

5. An arm-rest" consisting of the base-plate A, provided with socket to and projecting ears f, the swinging bracket-arm B, provided with pintle d, which engages with the socket c of the base-plate, and thearm-rec'eiver 0, supported upon a standard, (I, which engages with the socket c, and is secured therein by the setscrew 6, as described.

JOHN M. FITCH.

Vitnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, CHARLES J. HUNT. 

